Windmill motor



(No Model.) 2

H. s. WILSON.

' WIN-DMIL'L MOTOR. N9. 273,212. 2 Patented Feb. 27, 1883.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

HERBERT S. WILSON, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO H. JAY HAMMOND, OF SAME PLACE.

WlNDMlLL-MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,212, dated February 2'7, 1883.

Application filed September 5, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;-

- Be it known that I, HERBERT S. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michi- 5 gan, have invented a new and useful Windmill- Motor, of which the following is a specification.

, My invention has for its leading object to overcome the undue friction in windmill-mo- 1o tors by dispensing with complex frictional gear and substituting a belt-and-pulley mechanism, substantially as hereinafter set forth. Other objects are pointed out in the detailed description.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figurelisa side elevation; Fig. 2, a view looking from the right of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an enlarged view of the pulley-shaft, having a portion in section on dotted line in Fig. 5; Figs. 4 and 5, internal plan of the clutch devices; Fig. 6, enlarged view of belts and pulleys in perspective, and Fig. 7 cross-section of pulley-shaft on dotted lines in Fig. 3.

A A is the motor-frame supporting the revoluble shaft 7' androcking shaft cl.

0?. is a belt-pulley with which other machinery may be connected, and 0c is a balancewheel.

With the rocking shaft is connected a double o lever, D D, Fig. 1.

E is alever, one end of which connects with the rocking shaft, said end extending a little beyond and connecting with shaft S, which connects above with the wheel-crank. (Not here shown.) The other end of lever E is provided with a weight, w, to compensate for the weight of the pitman S, bearing down on the other end, in order that the double lever D D shall be equally balanced. Shaft r is provided 40 with disks on, keyed stationary to revolve with B B are revoluble sleeves or pulleys, with which are integrally formed the clutch-blocks B B, said blocks being located in the disks 2: o,

4 Figs.3, 4:, 5. Recesses areformedin the clutchblocks, in which are loosely located wheels t t, (two or more,) of such a diameter and length as to just fill the space designed for them in the recesses between the side walls of the disks and the outer rim. The recesses are so formed that when the clutch-block revolves in one direction the wheels are carried around in said recess; but by reversing the motion the wheels become wedged in between the wall of the redisk revolves in and-turns shaft 1', as explained in the operation. The pulleys B B are separated by a washer, e, which prevents their engaging each other during their revolution. With said pulleys are connected the belts c c a a, said belts being pivotally connected with the arms of the double lever D D, all in a manner that belts a. con one side shall unwind when belts 0 ct wind up, and vice versa, and that the pulleys of each set of belts shall revolve in opposite directions when the levers D D swing backward and forward, as explained in the operation.

By combining such a construction with the running mechanism of a windmill the power needed to run the motor and do the other work reqniredsuch as pumping, grinding, &c. is not exhausted by friction of parts, and there is no dead-center to overcome.

In the operation, as pitman S rises, throwing levers D D in the position shown by dotted lines in Fig.1, belts 66 c unwind, revolving their respective pulleys in opposite directions, and belts c a wind up, and vice versa. This movement causes the clutch-blocks to alternately revolve in their disks, or to carry said disks with them,-th us impartinga rotary movement to shaft 1'. The reason is that when the blocks revolve in the direction shown by the arrows in Figs. 4 and 5 the wheels t 15 wedge in the decreasing space between the outer rim of the disk o and the wall of the recess, caus ing the disks to revolve with them; but when the blocks revolve in the opposite direction the wheels I? t loosely rest in the hollow of the recess, and said blocks turn in the disks.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The rocking shaft having the double lever, provided with the belts pivotally connected with them, in combination with the shaft having the clutch-disks secured thereto, and the belt-pulleys having the integrally-concess and the outer rim of the disk 1;, when said nectedclutch-blocksprovided withtherecesses connecting the double lever with the millso shown, and the wheels located therein, all crank, and a, weight to counterbalance the substantially as set forth. weight of the pitmau, all in combination, sub- 2. The rock-shaft provided with the double stantially as set forth. 5 lever, the belts, and a shaft provided with 1 pulleys and cl11tch-blocks,all substantially as EERBERT WILbON' described and shown. \Vitnesses:

3. The pulley-shaft pnlleys,belts, the double H. J. HAMMOND, lever secured to the rocking shaft, the pitrnan JOHN G. PERKINS- 

